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14 Sep 16 – Surveying of eligible voters within Auckland City finds Phil Goff has 38% support, 27% ahead of his nearest rival Vic Crone on 11%. The next highest polling candidates are John Palino (6%) and first time and younger candidate Chloe Swarbrick (5%). Some 23% were undecided and were then asked who...

14 Sep 16 – Derek Handley says why his charitable foundation commissioned Auckland Mayoral election polling... At the last general election I was really keen to get young voters engaged and backed the concept of the Virgin Voter Collective and party-matching app Candidate to try and make it happen. The...

18 Dec 15 – "Oh my god, that's fantastic!" The reaction of Wellington resident Melissa G when she learned she had won our special $500 cash prize draw for Horizon research panel members who completed a Wellington Mayoral elections survey by midnight December 17, 2015. Melissa has been a panel member since June...

1 Apr 15 – Former Labour leader and cabinet minister Phil Goff is a clear front runner in results of a poll on who would receive most current and potential support if they were to run for the Auckland Mayoralty in 2016. A Horizon Research poll of Auckland Council area residents conducted between 19 and 26...

3 Oct 13 – Horizon's mid voting poll for all voters found a 14% gap likely between candidates Len Brown and John Palino. The official provisional final result was a 15.8% gap. Our earlier story regarding these results, looking at different scenarios, was: A mid-election poll shows only a 4% gap between...

16 Jul 13 – In a mostly two-way race for Auckland’s Mayoralty, there is a 12% gap between the main candidates, incumbent Len Brown and candidate John Palino. Mr Brown has a comfortable lead on Mr Palino when Auckland voters are presented with a list of 10 names and the option to choose someone else or...

27 Jun 13 – Nearly 47 out of 100 Aucklanders rated the Government’s performance on the Central Rail Link project as poor in the fortnight before it announced it would support a 2020 start date for the project. 46.9% rated performance on the issue has poor to very poor and 19.9% said it was good to very...

27 Jun 13 – HorizonPoll panel member, John, of Auckland writes after seeing poll results on how Aucklanders rate the Government’s performance on a range of issues: “Fascinating results for the poll into Government performance. It’s a given that any Government is going to be marked down by the...

21 Nov 12 – 80% think their councils have lost focus and 56% support Government moves to redefine their role. These are among the main findings of a Horizon Research survey of 956 adults nationwide in August, 2012. Commissioned by the New Zealand Centre for Infrastructure Development and weighted to represent...

21 Nov 12 – There is quite a strong degree of frustration that councils are not doing what residents want, according to comment on a HorizonPoll on local government. The New Zealand Centre for Infrastructure Development (NZCID), which commissioned the nationwide survey of 956 New Zealanders to test public...

24 Aug 12 – Changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme have gone into Parliament as a new poll shows that New Zealanders are evenly split over whether we should even have a price on carbon. Carbon News reports that Climate Change Minister Tim Groser introduced his Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading and...

24 Nov 11 – Here are Horizon's predictions for the 2011 General Election. We've waited until the last minute to post them, so as to take into account the latest polls by Horizon, Reid Research, Colmar Brunton, DigiPoll and other polling companies. Polling the electorate during an intense election campaign is...

20 Nov 11 – The country is highly polarised over the unauthorised recording of a meeting between the Prime Minister, John Key, and the Act party’s Epsom candidate, John Banks. 53% say that neither Mr Key nor Mr Banks, as parties to the conversation, should authorise the public release of the recording....

31 Oct 11 – Act support is sliding and the new Conservative party’s support rising in the latest RadioLIVE-HorizonPoll. When the results for both decided voters and undecided voters with a preference are considered, the current National-led coalition would have 61 seats in a 122 seat Parliament. A...

23 Oct 11 – 83% back the All Blacks, 57% will be in front of telly, up to 112,000 downtown - and 65% say do it again The All Blacks go onto Eden Park tonight with 83% of New Zealanders thinking they will win. Fine weather in Auckland could see between 80,000 and 112,000 fans descend on three downtown Auckland...

22 Oct 11 – New Zealand is currently heading for a close election result. Which main party will have an opportunity to form the next Government may depend on the New Zealand First and the Mana parties, and who 6.9% of undecided voters support. An October 19-21 RadioLIVE-Horizon poll of 2,200 registered...

20 Oct 11 – 65% of New Zealanders feel more could have been done earlier to avoid the loss of fuel from the wreck of the container ship Rena and resulting pollution. New Zealanders are also giving the Government, Prime Minister, the Transport Minister and Tauranga-Bay of Plenty National MPs poor performance...

24 Jul 11 – Deals being done in high-profile seats such as Ohariu and Epsom will be critical to the next government, the Sunday Star Times reports. Ohariu, in Wellington, is held by United Future's Peter Dunne, while Epsom, in Auckland, is being vacated by Act's Rodney Hide and will be contested by former...

6 Dec 10 – The HorizonPoll which shows New Zealand First may determine which of the main parties governs after the next election also shows National’s vote is higher than at the 2008 election. HorizonPoll says people interpreting the poll should bear in mind it expresses results as a percentage of the...

8 Oct 10 – A final HorizonPoll survey indicates Len Brown will comfortably win the Auckland super city Mayoralty. Mr Brown has 53.7% support among those who have cast votes. John Banks has 23.8%, Colin Craig 10.4%, others 6.4% and 4.6% will not say who they have voted for. The sample size is 432. Respondents...

2 Oct 10 – The latest HorizonPoll tracking survey finds Len Brown continuing to gain over John Banks in the Auckland super city Mayoralty race. Among those who have already voted, Brown’s lead over Banks has increased from 27% to a 32%, and he leads Banks by 40% to 18% among those who have yet to vote...

28 Sep 10 – Bob Parker has a 19% lead over Jim Anderton as preferred Mayor of Christchurch, according to HorizonPoll. Parker attracts 46% of voters, Anderton 27% in the special poll of 321 Christchurch City residents between September 23 and 26. Weighted, the survey has a maximum margin of error of +/- 5.5%....

27 Sep 10 – Cantabrians are optimistic about an early return to normality after this month's massive earthquake, an online poll shows. Chrstchurch's The Press newspaper reports this morning that an HorizonPoll survey of 358 people has found 65 per cent believe their lives will return to normal within a year of...

26 Sep 10 – Auckland Mayoral candidate Len Brown has a strong lead over rival John Banks in the first HorizonPoll survey of those who have so far voted in the first super city elections. The weighted survey of 570 city voters, conducted on Thursday and Friday (September 23-24), shows 49% of those who’ve...

26 Sep 10 – HorizonPoll reveals majority of people yet to vote in Auckland’s first super city elections don’t know when to return ballot papers. Fifty one per cent don’t know voting closes at noon, Saturday October 9, 2010. More than 56% don’t know voting papers need to be posted by 5pm...

17 Sep 10 – Here are HorizonPoll voters' comments on leading Auckland super city Mayoral candidates John Banks and Len Brown, after voting 29% to 17% for Brown over Banks. Some 37% were undecided, according to the August 24- September 16 weighted survey covering 1025 respondents. It also shows Banks is making...

15 Sep 10 – Aucklanders are more likely to have positive feelings about Mayoral candidate Len Brown than his main rival John Banks, according to the first research probing super city voters’ feelings. Brown leads Banks by 12% among decided voters in the latest HorizonPoll survey of 1025 super city...

3 Sep 10 – Len Brown is now polling 13% ahead of John Banks in the Auckland super city mayoralty contest. With 980 super city voters (August 23-September 3, 2010) having now completed the survey, Brown has 30% of decided voters, Banks 17%. 37% of voters, however, remain undecided and 8% say they won’t...

26 Aug 10 – Len Brown is polling 9% ahead of John Banks in the race for the Auckland super city mayoralty. An HorizonPoll survey of 500 super city voters (August 23-26, 2010) shows Brown has 28% of decided voters, Banks 19%. Some 36% of voters are undecided, 9% say they won’t vote for any of the 23...